Emile Briner
Emile Briner , (born February 20, 1879 in Carouge near Geneva , † April 11, 1965 in Geneva) was a Swiss chemist.
Briner studied chemistry at the University of Geneva and received his doctorate there in 1902 under Philippe-Auguste Guye . In 1903 he completed his habilitation in physical chemistry in Bern and became a private lecturer in Geneva. There he became associate professor for technical chemistry in 1918 and full professor for theoretical and technical chemistry in 1922. In 1954 he retired.
He dealt with salt electrolysis, heterogeneous equilibria (such as phosphorus-chlorine), peroxidation of nitrogen oxides and dealt in particular with ozone . In 1937 he developed a method to quantitatively detect ozone even in very low concentrations and discovered the catalytic effect of ozone in the oxidation of organic compounds. From 1950 he dealt with the ozone cycle in nature.
In 1937 he received the Lavoisier Medal and since 1947 a foreign member of the Académie des Sciences . He was an honorary doctor in Basel, Brussels and at the Sorbonne.
literature
- Winfried R. Pötsch (lead), Annelore Fischer, Wolfgang Müller: Lexicon of important chemists , Harri Deutsch 1989, p. 66
- Obituary in Helvetica Chimica Acta, Volume 49, 1966
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data, publications and academic family tree of Emile Briner at academictree.org, accessed on January 14, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Briner, Emile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carouge |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 11, 1965 |
| Place of death | Geneva |